Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer’s Punch, And A Crying Shame

... as they are Nazis, I must take issue with the weaponization of tears. I understand this particular shaming of Spencer is a righteous rush of schadenfreude for many, and I get that it capitalizes on the inarguably delicious irony of seeing the figurehead of the self-declared “alt-right” — a “political” “movement” that is founded in large part upon questioning adversaries’ testosterone levels and calling them crybabies — sent scuttling down the street. But the original stink still lingers: Rushing to equate tears with weakness doesn’t just underestimate the threat and momentum of Spencer’s rhetoric (which, alas, cannot be punched), it plays the alt-right’s lamest game: To complain is to cry, to cry is to “cuck” oneself — to self-exile to a space of defeat, humiliation, shame, and grievance where no (ahem) “real man” would ever go. Unless, you know, punched. By all means, mock Spencer’s beliefs (“At the end of the day, America belongs to white men”), ...

An Alt-right Leader's New Neighbors Are Not Very Happy He's Moved To Town

... flyers noting concern about his arrival, Spencer told Buzz Feed News, “I would rather not talk about this. It’s died down.”. “I haven’t seen any flyers where I live in No Va. Everyone has been kind and welcoming,” he later added. “I have no bad experiences moving into Alexandria.”. The owner of a chocolate shop downstairs from Spencer’s unit said the space was empty for about a year before Spencer moved in. At times, the owner said, reporters have mistakenly entered the shop looking for Spencer for an interview. “It’s been a little disruptive to the business, creating a little distraction,” the owner said, but “nobody’s been coming in causing trouble.” He said Spencer has visited the chocolate shop. “We try to do our best to just encourage people to be inclusive and enjoy chocolate,” the owner said. “We all have that in common. We all enjoy chocolate.”. Spencer called the rental unit in Alexandria a private venue. “This is not a public-facing facility at all,” he told Buzz Feed. “A public-facing facility is something with a ...

Richard Spencer’s Master’s Thesis Was An Anti-semitic Critique

... wrote, Adorno — a music critic and composer, as well as a philosopher — “was afraid to admit how much he loved the music of Wagner because Wagner was an anti-Semite championed by the Nazis.”. “If you looked at what I was doing, there was a clear interest in radical traditionalist right-wing German philosophy, a semi-fascist type thing,” Harkinson quoted Spencer as saying. “But there was always plausible deniability to it all.”. Ditto for Strauss, a German Jew of purportedly fascist inclination to whom, Harkinson passingly mentioned, Spencer was drawn. As to the Frankfurt School, whose prominent members, in addition to Adorno, included Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer, and Eric Fromm, Spencer discussed their impact on contemporary discourse about political correctness in a 2014 podcast for his journal, Radix. That podcast provides, perhaps, the greatest evidence for how Spencer developed a white nationalist philosophy based, in part, on the work of men whose trademark shared belief was in the significance of “critical theory,” which, according ...

Thousands Raised In Effort To Identify Alt-right Founder’s Assailant

... in the past. “It’s interesting that we’ve had a bounty up to identify the killer of DNC staffer Seth Rich for months and months and no one seemed to think that was at all beyond the pale, we didn’t hear a single complaint about trying to solve that crime. The Spencer bounty is very similar, we’re just trying to identify the perpetrator of a violent crime,” Mr. Dickinson told The Washington Times. “Could it be that putting a bounty up on the killer of a Democrat is OK, but putting up a bounty on the puncher of a Trump supporter isn’t? How interesting.”. We Searchr was launched last year by Mr. Dickinson and Chuck Johnson, a conservative blogger who also runs the website Got __link__. Other initiatives currently active on We Searchr’s website include efforts to conduct a DNA test on Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King and another aimed at obtaining former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly’s divorce filings. Mr. Spencer , meanwhile, gained notoriety for having coined the term “alt-right,” a far-right ideology, in addition to ...

Richard Spencer Launches 'alt-right' Website On Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday

... racists, and Peter Brimelow , leader of the VDARE, as leaders of the Alt-Right. But his cozy relationship with Brimelow and Taylor may have suffered after his “Heil Trump” salute, which shouldn’t come as a surprise. White nationalists have historically butted heads on Jewish conspiracy theories and Jewish participation within white nationalist circles, and the same holds true now. Taylor, for example, has stayed clear from anti-Semitism for years, claiming in 2006 that his readership has always included “both Jews and people who believe Jews play no useful role in a movement that promotes white interests. It has been my intent to emphasize questions crucial to our interests and on which we agree.”. And Taylor’s position hasn’t changed, even if the leading figurehead of the Alt-Right has changed his views. “I was shocked as anyone by all of that,” Spencer told a Norwegian newspaper. “I did not think that Richard Spencer was that sort of ...

How Donald Trump's Campaign Chief Created An Online Haven For White Nationalists

... an illustration of a frog taunting an elephant—the frog image being a meme white supremacists had popularized on social media. The piece praised the anti-immigrant site VDare, the white nationalist site American Renaissance, and white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, as the alt-right's "dangerously bright" intellectual core. On the RNC's opening day, Yiannapolous spoke at a "Citizens for Trump" rally. He also co-hosted a party featuring anti-Muslim activist Geller and the Dutch far-right nationalist politician Geert Wilders. Yiannopolous has proved to be Breitbart's most vitriolic anti-Muslim presence, erasing the distinction many conservatives draw between Islam and "radical Islam." After the Orlando shootings, Yiannopolous told Bannon on his weekly radio show that "there is a structural problem with this religion that is preventing its followers from assimilating properly into Western culture. There is something profoundly antithetical to our values about this particular religion.". Bannon has stoked racist themes himself, ...

Temple Alum Tim Heidecker Celebrates White Nationalist Richard Spencer's Face-punching With New Song

... meme  over the weekend. He went viral when footage of him being punched in the face by a protestor while discussing the importance of Pepe the Frog  in Inauguration Day. Now, as Pitchfork reports , Allentown native and Temple University alum Tim Heidecker has weighed in on the incident with a new song called “Richard Spencer.” And while no one should advocate for violence over debate, that is essentially exactly what Heidecker, a 1998 Temple grad , does in the song, at least when it comes to Spencer. “You can’t wish anyone dead, even if the baseball cap is red,” Heidecker, one half of Adult Swim’s Tim & Eric, sings. “But if you see Richard Spencer, why don’t you punch him in the head.”. A Randy Newman-style , piano-led track, “Richard Spencer” has Heidecker going on to state that “ain’t no one gonna cry” if you “give [Spencer] a big black eye.” The song is the ...

An Alt-right Leader Sets Up Shop In Northern Virginia

... York this week visiting with Spencer, who will be living on the top level of the spacious loft he and Jorjani will be using in Alexandria. The loft has no furniture yet; the only decor in the living room was a bottle of whiskey Spencer was working his way through around 3 p.m. on Wednesday. Upstairs, his belongings were strewn about in suitcases. The pair imagine the space as a kind of office-salon hybrid for the alt-right, a private space where people in the movement can make videos, throw parties (there’s an outdoor patio) and work on the nascent website, which Spencer said would launch on Monday. The loft “is symbolic in that it is a headquarters of sorts,” Spencer said. The fact that Spencer and Jorjani are attempting to take ownership of the term alt-right is likely to raise hackles in a movement whose membership is nebulous and disorganized, but often territorial and disputatious. Two factions have been battling over the Deploraball, a party planned for the night before ...

Where To Drink Richard Spencer Punch Tonight

... a photo proving you were at the Women's March for a free shot. When pop-up Middle Eastern cocktail bar The Green Zone first launched, they proudly poured "Fuck ISIS Punch." After Donald Trump secured the presidential nomination, the punch was renamed "Fuck Trump Punch." And given inauguration weekend's sucker-punch-watched-around-the-world , the drink will take on yet another moniker tonight. While America's most notorious white supremacist of the moment ices that shiner, The Green Zone's  event  tonight at Zeba Bar will feature "Richard Spencer Punch." Dubbed "Nasty Niswan and Bad Shabab Unite!," the 5 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. gathering will feature an Arabic menu whose title translates as "Resistance Cocktails.". "The Green Zone started out as rather nonpartisan, but now I’ve found that inappropriate, and we have to speak up for rights, justice, and progressivism," says owner Chris Hassaan Francke. "I was super inspired by the magnitude, ...

The Elite Roots Of Richard Spencer’s Racism

... has often chosen to honor human bondage and anti-black oppression. R. L. Thornton Freeway bears the name of a businessman who served as mayor of Dallas from 1953 to 1961 and once belonged to the Klan. In the 1920 s, Thornton owned Dallas County State Bank, which proudly advertised itself as a “KKK Business Firm 100%.”. If slaveowners founded and ran Dallas before the Civil War, the city’s wealthiest and most powerful remained largely unashamed of their racism for the hundred years that followed. The Dallas Herald hysterically warned of plots to “impose negro supremacy” during Reconstruction. Prominent Dallasites during that era protected an English immigrant, W. R. A. Vivion, who terrorized freedmen by forcing them at gunpoint to graze like cattle. Elites may have been involved in the assassination of an army officer newly appointed to run the Freedmen’s Bureau , George F. Eben, before he could even reach the town. The city’s ruling class ...

Trans-pacific Partnership, Richard Spencer, Cervical Cancer

... to remove the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The United States joined the trade deal during the Obama Administration, and it has been heavily criticized by both Republicans and Democrats. The Roosevelt Institute, a liberal think tank, reported that TPP was a bad deal for the U. S., and would have little to no effect on the U. S. GDP. They also stated that it could lead to a raise in the net unemployment rate, as high import competition "would shed more jobs in the labor-intensive industries." It is safe to say that removing ourselves from this deal could greatly benefit both workers and businesses in America. -J. R. Bellavia, Opinion Intern. Thumbs Sideways: Richard Spencer Being Punched. This weekend, a video surfaced of Richard Spencer, being assaulted in Washington on Inauguration Day. Spencer is a white supremacist and the face of the alt-right movement. Let me be clear when I say that I absolutely hate Richard Spencer. I think he is a disgusting, ...